Who's Going to Burning Man?

Across Northern California and beyond, tinkerers, dilettantes, gurus and hackers are heeding the call of the playa.

Beginning Aug. 29, tens of thousands of desert-bound dreamers will converge in the Black Rock Desert for the annual pilgrimage of self-expression, survival, gifting and indulgence that is Burning Man. 

We want to know if you'll be on that wagon and what sort of crazy projects you’ve dreamt up. Transforming a golf cart into a remote-controlled space platypus with laser eyes? Welding a semi-robotic pair of flaming stilts? How about that handmade leather wedding dress you’ve been working on for six months?

Show us your art, your mutated vehicles and the gifts you’re planning on dispersing to the hordes. For those of us who can’t make it out to the playa, we’d love to see what hair-brained antics you’ve got cooked up.

With tickets sold out and more than 50,000 participants expected this year, surely Mill Valleyans will be out in force.

And when you get back, send your pics, videos and stories to jimw@patch.com. We'll put together a slideshow of the best submission in early September.